Quarterback · Pittsburgh Steelers

Aaron Rodgers

No. 8 · 22nd season

He called it his Last Rodeo, then booked the flights

Two weeks before Pittsburgh Steelers training camp, Aaron Rodgers gathered six of his new pass-catchers and took them somewhere together. He called it a bonding week. He also called this season his Last Rodeo.

Rodgers has played professional football for two decades. He has won a Super Bowl, won most-valuable-player awards, changed teams, torn an Achilles on national television in his first game as a New York Jet, and kept going. Whatever the Pittsburgh chapter turns out to be, he has already named it — out loud, to anyone listening.

The trip itself is a small thing: some guys, some time, before the real work starts. But small things mean more when someone has already said the clock is running. He didn't wait for a preseason press conference or a team-mandated event. He organized it himself.

That detail says something. When a player who knows this is his last shot to win it decides to build something before camp even opens, the people around him tend to notice.

The question now is whether this group becomes the thing he built it to be — or whether the Last Rodeo ends before anyone gets a proper send-off.

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